The Pirate Bay (TPB) may soon need to get those “Low Orbit Server Station” (LOSS) drones it talked about in March airborne, for things aren’t looking all that bright on the ground for the world’s largest torrent site. The latest setback for TPB comes in the form of a UK High Court ruling directing five of the country’s largest internet service providers (ISPs) to block the popular torrent site. Hit the jump for more.

This order comes in a lawsuit filed against Britain’s top six ISPs by a bunch of music labels representing themselves and other members of the music industry trade group the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In February, the court held that TPB’s operators along with its users in the UK were infringing the claimants’ copyrights.

Now, the music labels have got what they were after: an injunction forcing the ISPs to “take measures to block or at least impede access by their customers to a peer-to-peer ("P2P") file-sharing website called The Pirate Bay ("TPB").” The five ISPs to whom this order applies are Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media. As for BT, the UK’s largest ISP, it has been granted some more time to review the matter.

“We continue to have discussions with the BPI and we hope to announce an outcome acceptable to both of us soon," a BT spokesman told ZDNet UK.

“Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists," reads a statement issued by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). "The High Court has confirmed that The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale. Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works without paying a penny to the people who created them.”

Secondly, this is one of the many reasons this SOPA and other similar stupidities needs to die in a fire. I wonder how many of the people in that courtroom have ever used a torrent, or have any idea about the way they work.

Perhaps it is time for music and film companies to accept that digital downloads are really the logical way forward, and that the majority of users, especially during a recession, aren't likely to drop £10 and over on a music cd.

And why blame TPB and torrent sites specifically? I can listen to just about any damned song I want to on Youtube, and that's free.